If one accepts that vision of the 'self' in our infancy, as an open book, and therefore a site for potential gender colonization, our adult task might be one of cultural decolonization
. Yet, if such a possibility is not realistic, as it seems not to be, it is hard to see how any form of resistance to oppression can get a foot-hold. How can the colonized mind be open to transformation and resistance given that it is already colonized?
Left with a consciousness which involves the capacity to see oneself in accordance with the dominant ways in which one is oppressively represented and constrained in different, and often conflicting ways.
Yet there is hope - for it is precisely the capacity to be conscious of this plurality of the self, that allows for resistance, since there is an awareness which outstrips the multiple forms of oppression by viewing them together, as well as in conflict. This may prove the road to cultural salvation,
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